Musical note: You can actually play records using the new fiver as a needle

Here’s another new reason to love the new fiver, apart from the fact it has a little window in it, and if you get one with the right serial numbers it might be worth £65,000.
You can turn it into a needle for vinyl records!
A really bad, tinny sounding needle which might well wreck your precious discs – but hey, it wasn’t us who did it, it was Facebook user Michael Noone.
If you’re really bothered, you can trick it out with a contact microphone and amp, and it actually works like a ‘proper’ needle (you can also do it with a paper cone, in case you’re interested).
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